Linux-Hardware Digest #200, Volume #9 Sun, 17 Jan 99 13:13:43 EST
Contents:
IDE tape drives (Tom Fawcett)
Re: Newbie: Can't Read CDROM properly (fred smith)
Soundblaster AWE32 (Foreign)
Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 ("Bjorn Wesen")
FYI: 3Dfx and Linux (Thomas)
Re: linux viruses (Matthew Pound)
Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 ("Bjorn Wesen")
Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 (Mircea)
Re: Overclocked celeron and Linux (Vladimir Ignatov)
Re: A Call To Arms (Grant Leslie)
Re: Linux compatible 3d/2d graphics card (George Ruch)
Re: Winmodem or no?? ("Bjorn Wesen")
Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 (Bjorn Lindgren)
Re: Modem trouble ("Information")
Re: System Beeps (Ashley Drees)
Re: System Beeps (Frank Herrmann)
Re: Linux and IDE (ATA) Hard Drives > 8.4 GB ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux with Acer CD-ROM, US Robotics, and Iomega's JAZ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mouse problems in X (Mohd H Misnan)
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE tape drives
Date: 16 Jan 1999 17:03:31 -0500
I have a Sony Superstation (an IDE tape drive) for making backups. I'm
running 2.2-pre6 with IDE tape support enabled, but I can't make a backup
without errors. Both tar and afio send about 50 files to the drive, it
starts writing, then gets errors:
Jan 13 22:29:10 myth kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 2, asc = 4,
ascq = 1
Jan 13 22:29:10 myth kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 4,
ascq = 1
Jan 13 22:29:52 myth kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 2, asc = 4,
ascq = 1
Jan 13 22:29:52 myth kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 4,
ascq = 1
Jan 13 22:30:25 myth kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 2, asc = 4,
ascq = 1
Jan 13 22:30:25 myth kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 4,
ascq = 1
Jan 13 22:32:29 myth kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jan 13 22:32:29 myth kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Jan 13 22:32:30 myth kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = 2, asc = 3a,
ascq = 0
Jan 13 22:32:30 myth last message repeated 18 times
I've checked the ide-tape.c source code. There are various user-settable
parameters, but none looks like it would affect these errors. I've played
with BIOS settings but none seems to make a difference.
Before I junk the drive and go back to floppy tapes, has anyone had these
problems and found a fix for them? Is the ide-tape driver flaky, or is the
Superstation a flaky piece of hardware, or is my drive just broken?
Thanks,
-Tom
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Crossposted-To:
alt.linux.slakware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred smith)
Subject: Re: Newbie: Can't Read CDROM properly
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:10:32 GMT
Calvin Mitchell - Pacbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I wrote some ftp files on a cd-r disc using an HP CD-R 7200.
: When I mount the disc on my linux or openstep system, files that are beyond
: a certain size show up as multiple copies.
: Help!!
I saw what may be the same problem recently, tring to use a CD with
MS's Joliet filesystem on it on my old RH 4.1 system. When viewed under
Windoze it looked like normal files. When mounted on 4.1 and viewed there
there were three copies of each file, each with identical names, each one
third the size of the files that showed up on Windoze. when mounted on
RH 5.2 (which supports Joliet, 4.1 didn't) it looks just like it did
on Windoze. So apparently Joliet is weird, makes multiple physical
files serve the duty of a single combined file, perhaps?
And perhaps your CD is a Joliet cd and you didn't mount it as a
joliet filesystem.
Fred
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it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
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Subject: Soundblaster AWE32
From: Foreign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:54:16 GMT
Allthough one should suppose that the newer versions of Linux (I use Suse
5.3) support the Soundblaster AWE32, I could not get this thing working
till this moment.
Anybody who could help me out? Thanks!
Foreign
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From: "Bjorn Wesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.arch,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:34:40 +0100
Bjorn Lindgren wrote in message <77souq$osv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Its just for veryfying that my newly bought PII-450 is a real one and
>not some remarked 300/350/400, do you know any other way?
>Maybe with SPECint95/SPECfp95 benchmark tool, but are that openly
>availble for Linux or *BSD, havent heard/seen of one.
Why don't you just check in the BIOS setup to see what MHZ the cpu runs at ?
If it runs at 450, it is either a p2/450 or a p2/X overclocked to 450. AFAIK
there's no way to tell the difference, otherwise that the overclocked part
will most certainly crash your computer when it has severe loading :)
/Bjorn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: FYI: 3Dfx and Linux
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:02:42 GMT
Hi,
there is a very interesting post from Gary Tarolli
on 3Dfx' newsserver:
---snip---
From: Gary Tarolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: 3dfx.glide.linux
Subject: Re: Unofficial Banshee Specs
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In response to the recent "Unofficial Banshee Specs" thread, I want to
make you aware that 3Dfx is intending to provide developers with
Banshee
2D register specs at no cost. This will be done under a contract.
However, we are working to make this contract as unrestrictive as
possible
while still protecting our intellectual property. We will not require
that
the source code be mangled or obfuscated.
So if you can wait just a few more weeks, we should have this all
wrapped up.
___________________________
Gary Tarolli
Chief Technical Officer
3Dfx Interactive, Inc.
---snip---
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Pound)
Subject: Re: linux viruses
Date: 16 Jan 1999 23:18:06 GMT
: : Yes and no. McAfee seems to have a Linux port for virus scan, but it is
: : only for E-Mail and DOS/Windows files.
: E-MAIL??? Is this another one of those Goodtimes scaremongering things or
: something?
No, although linux is imune to viruses, it kan however be a
carrier for dos/windows viruses as email attatchments are very common
now. That is what it means by scanning email. Executable attachments.
later.
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From: "Bjorn Wesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.arch,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:46:25 +0100
Raymond Doetjes wrote in message <01be4215$18902980$83fd4fc1@jnzbwtaw>...
>You are right, I have an alpha 533MHz, it reaches 529 BogoMips, but when I
>see that a Intell PII 300 Mhz comes to 500 Bogomips it makes you think.
Why ? There is very little correlation between bogomips number and cpu
speed. The bogomips speed is aquired by timing the execution time of a loop
of NOP's (no-operations) and dividing by the amount of nop's in the loop.
What you get, is a measure of how fast the CPU does nothing.
This has nothing to do with how fast the CPU processes real instructions. In
the NOP case, you basically just measure the clock speed and internal L1
cache speed, which is always fast enough to give the CPU the nop's in the
loop without delay.
But as soon as you start running real instructions, all the other parts of
the CPU comes into play like the efficiency of the memory interface, the
cache design, CPU superscalarity (ability to execute more than one
instruction per cycle - normally NOP's are not multi-issued I'd guess),
pipeline interlock, instruction decomposition (in the x86 and AMD case) and
interrupt overhead, just to name a few factors.
The only thing you should use the Bogomips number for, is to compare the
clock speeds of different CPU's of the same model. Nothing else. Use a real
benchmark for performance comparision. If you're interested in 3d games, use
a game. If you're interested in calculations, use Spec95 for example..
/Bjorn W
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.arch,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:50:19 -0500
Reply-To: stNOamasdATexSPAMciteDOTcom
My Celeron 300A O/Ced to 450MHz does 451 point something...
MST
Bjorn Lindgren wrote:
>
> Hi, anyone run Linux on Intel PII-450 that can post the
> bogomips number from /proc/cpuinfo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vladimir Ignatov)
Subject: Re: Overclocked celeron and Linux
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:15:29 GMT
My Celeron 300A work for me at 464Mhz (MB - Gigabyte)
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From: Grant Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: A Call To Arms
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:55:24 -0400
> People just don't want to spend a lot of money on
> software for it.
Write good enough software, and people will pay for it.. no matter what
OS it runs on. Personally I'm completely ready to pay for Corel Suite
2000 for Linux, I also buy many Win9x games, which I'd still be willing
to pay for if they happened to include a Linux port, in fact I'd be MORE
willing to pay for it if they did..
Besides what was ever wrong a company expanding it's potential market?
> Plus, Linux is a real big moving target. I had a client
> who got into real big trouble installing a new version of RedHat because
> something changed that caused their Cyclades serial board to quit working.
And how many drivers stopped working when they upgraded from DOS to Win
3.1? then from Win 3.1 to Win 95, and then after Service Pack #1 was
installed, and then ( God forbid ) from Win 95 to Win NT 4.0?? Linux is
no more a moving target than any other OS.
For the record I'm not an "MS hater" per say, just someone who hates
paying for bad software. People use the free software, in Linux, for one
simple reason, it does what they want it to do, period. A wonderful side
effect is you don't have to pay for it.
> Waiting for the flames to begin...
Well, when you make a comment which might come across as an insult to
Linux, on these newsgroups, you MUST realize many of the people who will
read it are people who contribute to Linux, with there time, programming
skill, and some even with thier money, many of these people are the
people who helped to write much of the software that run on Linux, and
many even help write the core the OS itself, the Kernel. Therefore,
don't be too surprised if some of them happen to kinda take it
personally..
My 2 cents worth ;-)
--
"It looks so lovely, and fragile. Imagine how many millions of people
are living on it, and don't even realize how fragile it is."
Alan B. Shepard, 1971, said with a tear in his eye, on the
Apollo 14 mission looking back at earth from the moon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Ruch)
Subject: Re: Linux compatible 3d/2d graphics card
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 01:00:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Lloyd Holmes) wrote:
>I'm looking for a decent video card that handles both 3d and 2d
>acceleration. I'd like to keep the price around $100 if I can. The card
>must be pci, and I'd like it to be upgradable to at least 8 meg.
>I wouldn't mind not having 3d drivers at first, since my main use for
>that will be gaming. I also prefer video quality over performance to some
>extent.
You might also consider the Matrox Productiva and G200 series. I'm still
impressed with my 3 year old Mystique under both OS/2 and Win98. I haven't
run it under Linux X Windows yet (just got the RedHat 5.2 package today),
but it behaved very nicely running XFre86 3.3.2 under OS/2 Warp 3
(accelerated SVGA driver).
One other advantage: Matrox uses a unified driver set for all its PC-based
boards starting with the original Millennium and Mystique.
PC Connection (www.pcconnection.com) lists a Millennium G200 PCI w/8 MB
memory for $119 plus shipping.
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From: "Bjorn Wesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.modems,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:51:36 +0100
>>>but rs-232c ports never go out of style. i predict serial cables will
>>>be around long after pci becomes obsolete.
>>
>> Don't get too comfortable. IEEE 1394 (Firewire, iLink) is coming up
>> fast in serial's mirrors, boasting enough bandwidth (spec in progress)
>> for *uncompressed* 1080i HDTV (4Gbs, I think), along with hot-plug
>> capability. Serial cables may be around, but you may not have anything
>> to plug them *into*...at either end.
I got one word for you - USB. The USB device flora is exploding - the USB
slave chips are not more expensive than a normal RS232 UART, and USB is much
better.
All PC's and notebooks sold during the last 2 years have had USB on the
motherboards.. and now with the iMAC _only_ having USB and Firewire, you'll
get even more devices.
Now I don't think the RS232 connector will disappear from the back of the PC
right now, but it will probably only be used for legacy devices in 2 years.
USB support for Linux is really needed soon :)
/Bjorn
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From: Bjorn Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.arch,alt.os.linux
Subject: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450
Date: 17 Jan 1999 01:05:39 GMT
Hi, anyone run Linux on Intel PII-450 that can post the
bogomips number from /proc/cpuinfo
Want numbers from as many diffrent ppl as possible.
Thanks.
--
Bjorn Lindgren
bjorn(e)chiba.cx
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From: "Information" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:15:57 -0700
he would not have a reason to lie, then he could sell you a nifty external
modem that plays nice with linux.
>That's a hallmark for winmodems. Your vendor either doesn't know his
>business, or is plainly lying.
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From: Ashley Drees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: System Beeps
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:11:55 +0000
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Thanks frank.. I have had one other reply saying memory... as I have
already swapped out the PSU I guess that that is all that is left for me
to do... there is not much else that I can change as there are only so
many socketed things on a board...
I could not find any reference to continuous beeps anywhere... 1 through
11 (with variants), and the award bios seems to not beep at all (apart
from a few introductory ones as it likes to display its errors).
A
Frank Herrmann wrote:
>
> Ashley Drees wrote:
>
> > Before I go mad and have to take all this stuff back to the shop, is
> > there anyone who can enlighten me on what the beeps mean.
> >
> Check RAM and also power supply.
>
> I hope this could help you.
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From: Frank Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: System Beeps
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:35:31 +0100
Ashley Drees wrote:
> Hi.
>
Hi Ashley,
>
> I am trying to build a new system, I have FIC VA-503+ M/B and a AMD K6-2
> chip with 64 Meg Mem. The Bios is an Award Bios (1997).
>
> When I try and run the system all the fans start, the CPU gets warm and
> the system beeps continuously.. about one a second between each beep..
> and does not stop at 11. The only thing left in the case (now) is the
> M/B and the VGA card, (I have tried three VGA cards, two keyboards and
> two mice).
>
> I have searched for beep sequences on the net, and the only reference I
> have to continues beeping is bad power supply, I have replaced that and
> no change.
>
> Before I go mad and have to take all this stuff back to the shop, is
> there anyone who can enlighten me on what the beeps mean.
>
These beeps are POST (power on self test) - codes , and the meaning
depends on the board you are using .
In the case that "important" components dont work correctly the
beeps can help you to find the mistake .
Check RAM and also power supply.
I hope this could help you.
>
> Yours in confused anguish.
>
> Ash
Frank
PS: I also mailed this to you , because you are in a hurry :-)
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http://b201-2a.wh8.tu-dresden.de/~frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Linux and IDE (ATA) Hard Drives > 8.4 GB
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:50:45 GMT
> I am running a 10.1 GB EIDE Western Digital drive,
> which reports in dmsg:
> hdd: WDC AC310100B, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
> (It reports that it's only 8.063 GB).
If it reports 8 GB, then that's what it is. You are only using 8 GB out of 10,
so wasting 2 GB. Some people have hard drives smaller than 2 GB.
I'm having the exact same problem with a 10GB Maxtor. I can make it work all
right as an 8GB hard drive, but I can't make fdisk (RedHat 5.2) see all 10
Gig for the life of me. Some people don't seem to have this problem, others
do. It's strange. If you're satisfied with 8 GB, then you're all set, but if
you want all 10 gig, you'll see the problem is nontrivial.
>
> I set it up with linux fdisk:
> Disk /dev/hdd: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 8191 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdd1 1 1 4912 4951264+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hdd2 4096 4913 9825 4952304 83 Linux native
>
> I figured this out by looking up the number of sectors in
> the www page for the drive:
> User Sectors Per Drive: 19,807,200
> Then, fiddling around I found that 9825 * 63 * 32 == 19,807,200
So what does this say?
How about 19650*63*16 = 19,807,200? I'm sure these are
the C/S/H the manufacturer reports.
> So, using fdisk, I set the heads to 32 and sectors to 63
> and the start and end cylinder values as above.
> Note that the fdisk Begin column is wrong.
> But the beast works fine: I filled each partition and nothing
> broke. Been working for about a month now.
>
Your partitions do seem to overlap. If they do, I'm surprised you haven't had
problems until now. If the partitions overlap and you write to one partition,
you realize you will overwrite data in the other partition. It happened to
me, after ignoring the fdisk overlap warning. First programs couldn't load
the shared libraries anymore, then when I logged out I couldn't login as root
anymore, or as anyone else. I had to reinstall. To have a more accurate
picture, go to expert mode in fdisk and print the partition table from WITHIN
EXPERT MODE, rather than from regular mode. If that shows overlaps, then you
do have overlaps.
> --
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> Senior Electrical Engineer Applied Physics Laboratory
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> 206-543-7207, 543-1300, FAX 543-6785 Seattle, WA 98105-6698
>
I guess all I'm saying is be careful. You don't want to have all your C code
gone later on, because of partition overlapping.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux with Acer CD-ROM, US Robotics, and Iomega's JAZ?
Date: 17 Jan 1999 17:11:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All:
Does Linux work with the ACER 36X CD-ROM and Iomega's JAZ drive for PCs?
Also, I know that the Linux hardware list states that the US Robotics 56K modem
is incompatible with Linux but is there a way to tweak around this?
Thanx for any information.
Sincerly,
Keith Lee
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Subject: Re: Mouse problems in X
Date: 17 Jan 1999 00:58:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am a newbie. I have the following problem with the mouse. In XF86
>with fvwm, after a while the mouse clicks no longer work to change
>window focus or operate the control buttons (minimize, maximize,
>close). However, the left button will select menus in a window, will
>interact with dialog boxes and select links on web pages.
Most probably you have gpm & X running at the same time. I've heard
that you may face a problem when running gpm & X at the same time.
If you want both gpm & X, use /dev/gpmdata instead of /dev/mouse (
or whatever it linked to..) And use Protocol "MouseSystems".
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